Anna Beata Bohdziewicz – born in Łódź. An ethnographer by training. From 1974 to 1980 she worked in film as an assistant and second director (with such directors as W. Borowczyk, K. Kieślowski, P. Szulkin, K. Zanussi, A. Trzos- Rastawiecki). In 1980, she gave up film and began working in photography. She documented
the beginnings of the political transformations in Poland and the birth of Solidarity. During martial law, she was involved in independent cultural activity and collaborated with the underground Solidarity press. Since the end of 1982, she has placed all her photographs of everyday life in Poland into a collection titled Fotodziennik czyli piosenka o końcu świata [Photo-journal, Or a Song About the End of the World]. The Photographs include short handwritten captions, both as subjective notations and frames for remembering, as well as sharp commentaries on Polish reality. This record is still being produced. Bohdziewicz is also the author of other major projects, the realization of which has continued for many years. These include Kapliczki
Warszawskie [Warsaw Chapels], Kosmos [Cosmos], Antypocztówki [Anti-postcards], Piękni i Szczęśliwi [Beautiful and Happy], Prywatna telewizja [Private Television]. Anna Bohdziewicz has also judged many photographic exhibitions (among others, “Photographs from Gazeta Wyborcza”, Marek Rostworowski’s “By God’s Hand”, and “Warsaw 1943–1944. An Unknown Photographer”). Together with Mariusz Hermanowicz,
she put together the exhibition “Victims of Martial Law”. She is also the author of numerous reviews and texts on photography and interviews with photographers, including Zofia Rydet, Edward Hartwig and Anna Leibowitz. She has had a number of exhibitions in Poland and abroad, both in Europe and America. Photo-
journal has been shown in over 60 countries around the world. She has published the books Kapliczki Warszawskie [Warsaw Chapels] (together with M. Stopa), Warsaw 2008; 1981. Lekki powiew wolności [A Light Breath of Freedom], Warsaw 2014; Wszystko od nowa [Everything from Scratch], 1989; Fotodziennik [Photo-journal], Warsaw 2014.
